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018 - The Lost Wife of Ballaleece · Manx Fairy Tales

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  Speaker 1: Chapter seventeen of Monk's Fairy Tales. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: by Francisca Power. Monk's Fairy Tales by Sophia Morrison, Chapter seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: The Lost Wife of Bealalese. One time the farmer of
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  Speaker 1: Bellalese married a beautiful young wife, and they were thinking
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  Speaker 1: the world of one another. But before long she disappeared.
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  Speaker 1: Some persons said that she was dead, and others that
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  Speaker 1: she was taken by the little people. Bales mourned for
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  Speaker 1: her with a heavy heart and looked for her from
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  Speaker 1: point of air to the calf, but in the end,
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  Speaker 1: not finding her, he married another wife. The one was
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  Speaker 1: not beautiful, but there was some money at her. Soon
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  Speaker 1: after the marriage, his first wife appeared to bellale one
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  Speaker 1: night and said to him, my man, my men, I
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  Speaker 1: was taken away by the little people, and I lived
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  Speaker 1: with them near to you. I can be set free
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  Speaker 1: if you will, But do what I tell you. Tell
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  Speaker 1: me quick, said Bellallees. We'll be riding through Bellilees barn
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  Speaker 1: at midnight on Friday said she We'll be going in
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  Speaker 1: on one door and out on another. I'll be riding
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  Speaker 1: behind one of the men on horseback. You'll sweep the
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  Speaker 1: barn clean, and mind there's not one straw left on
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  Speaker 1: the floor. Hold of my bridle rein, hold it fast,
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  Speaker 1: and I shall be free. When the night came, Bellallees
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  Speaker 1: took a basom and swept the barn floor so clean
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  Speaker 1: that not one's back was left on it. Then he
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  Speaker 1: waited in the dark. At midnight, the barn doors opened wide.
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  Speaker 1: Sweet music was heard, and in through the open door
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  Speaker 1: came a fine company of little people in green jackets
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  Speaker 1: and red caps, riding fine horses. On the last horse
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  Speaker 1: sitting behind the little fellow, bellily saw his first wife,
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  Speaker 1: as pretty as a p and as young as when
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  Speaker 1: she left him. He seized hold of her bridle rein,
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  Speaker 1: but she was shaken from side to side like a
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  Speaker 1: leaf on a tree, and he was not able to
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  Speaker 1: hold her. As she went out through the door, she
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  Speaker 1: stretched out her right hand and pointed to a bushel
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  Speaker 1: on the corner of the barn and called out in
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  Speaker 1: a sad voice, there's been a straw put under the
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  Speaker 1: bushel For that reason, you couldn't hold me, and you've
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  Speaker 1: done with me for ever. The second wife had heard
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  Speaker 1: what had passed, and had hidden the straw and turned
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  Speaker 1: the bushel upside down so that it would not be seen.
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  Speaker 1: The young wife was never heard of any more. End
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  Speaker 1: of Chapter seventeen. Recording by Franciska Power